[Master Thread] Attempted Trump Assassination (Including attempt on Sept 15, 2024)

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Democrats Express Relief That Hitler Is OK

 

[...] Following a busy weekend of making public statements and social media posts clearly identifying Trump as "literally Hitler" and telling the country that he posed a grave threat to the existence of the United States, Democratic leaders quickly made it known how glad they were to find out he was unharmed.

 

"We're just glad the greatest threat to democracy is safe," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.  "I know just an hour or so before he narrowly avoided a second attempt on his life I posted online about how he was leading the charge to destroy America and had to be stopped, but I'm relieved to hear that he wasn't harmed."  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-express-relief-that-hitler-is-ok

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Trump Assassination Suspect Buying AR-15s Nonstop While In Custody

 

WEST PALM BEACH, FL—In the wake of the second attempt on Donald Trump's life in the past three months, sources confirmed Monday that the man who allegedly attempted to shoot the 45th president of the United States, Ryan Wesley Routh, was buying AR-15s nonstop while in custody.

 

"Somehow, despite being detained and under strict police watch, the would-be assassin still managed to purchase several more semiautomatic weapons, as well as hundreds more rounds of ammunition," said Secret Service agent Jeffrey Walters, who added that [...]

 

https://theonion.com/trump-assassination-suspect-buying-ar-15s-nonstop-while-in-custody/

[Dashinka 24,495]

I am going to post this in two places since it fits in both threads.  I would also like to understand the rules.

 

What Are the Rules?

 

 

Consider this a forlorn cry for exposition and specificity. Will someone, somewhere, in the name of all that is good and true, tell me what the bloody rules are for determining whether rhetorical bombast counts as mere everyday hyperbole or as the ineluctable prerequisite to political violence? I have looked and looked for a pattern, but, despite having pried up the floorboards and scoured the attic and investigated every last corner of the basement, I can find no standard that I find satisfactory. Surely, there must be more undergirding all this than just Calvinball?

 

Yesterday, Donald Trump’s life was threatened for the second time in two months. In response, I have seen two lines emerge from the media. The first is that the attempt should not be blamed on his critics but on the would-be shooter, who is crazy. The second line is that, by some extraordinary alchemy that I evidently lack the intellect to comprehend, the blame for his having been targeted lies with Trump himself. As a writer who has uniformly rejected the idea that political arguments ought to be blamed for the actions of vicious criminals, I am in instinctive agreement with the first approach. But I am also aware that, unlike myself, those who are currently advancing that case do not do so consistently. Thus, my inquiry: If my one-size-fits-all rule has not been adopted writ large, then what has been?

 

Back when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked with a hammer, I was informed that, if the victim of an attack had at any point been “demonized” by a political party, then that political party was responsible for what follows. Indeed, in the immediate aftermath of that ugly incident, the Washington Post recruited no fewer than three of its top writers to draw a direct line between the assault on Paul Pelosi and a series of anti-Nancy political commercials that were run in 2010 — twelve years earlier. The “years of vilification,” the Post proposed, “culminated Friday when Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was attacked with a hammer during an early-morning break-in at the couple’s home in San Francisco by a man searching for the speaker and shouting ‘Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?’” Lest anyone misunderstand what it meant by “culminated,” the paper made sure to spell it out. “For many Democrats,” the piece concluded, “the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband represents the all-but-inevitable conclusion of Republicans’ increasingly violent and threatening rhetoric toward their political opponent.”

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/09/what-are-the-rules/

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Good (double) post and good questions in it.

[TBoneTX 45,288]

No excuse for this.  I think that the top half-dozen pooh-bahs in the USSS should be cashiered immediately, along with individual agents who can't cut the mustard.

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Report Shines More Light On Secret Service Incompetence That Nearly Killed Trump

 

A day after another crazed leftist was arrested and accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has released a blistering 22-page Whistleblower Report on the U.S. Secret Service's epic failure to protect the GOP presidential nominee.  [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/16/report-shines-more-light-on-secret-service-incompetence-that-nearly-killed-trump/

[TBoneTX 45,288]

I heard Eric Trump being interviewed on Tuesday.  He said that the golf-course incident was an example of combined success & failure -- stellar reaction when the agent noticed the rifle barrel, but failed perimeter surveillance.

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Capitol Hill's bipartisan outrage at Secret Service:  'They failed twice'

 

Bipartisan frustration with the Secret Service is boiling over after a second alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump this week.

 

Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are openly questioning the security protocols of the beleaguered agency, with senators calling for expanded investigations into how another apparent would-be gunman got so close to Trump on Monday.  [...]

 

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/16/2024/second-attempt-to-harm-trump-sparks-bipartisan-interest-in-more-secret-service-funding

[TBoneTX 45,288]

FBI Says We May Never Know The Motivation Of The Would-Be Trump Assassin Who Was A Biden-Harris Supporter And Donated To Democrats 20 Times

 

WEST PALM BEACH, FL — As the investigation into the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump continued, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said we may never know the motivation of the would-be assassin who was a Biden-Harris supporter and donated to Democrats 20 times.

Sources within the FBI said the mystery had thus far proved to be too complex to unravel, as agents scoured the shooter's extensive social media post history condemning Trump and his long track record of giving money to Democratic political causes in search of any sign of what may have motivated his attack.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-says-we-may-never-know-the-motivation-of-the-would-be-trump-assassin-who-was-a-biden-harris-supporter-and-donated-to-democrats-20-times

[Boiler 45,507]

 

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

6 hours ago, Boiler said:

 

surprise surprise!

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Trump Dodges Falling Piano, Swinging Death Blade, Spiked Pitfall Trap On Way To Rally

 

LONG ISLAND, NY — The tension of election season reached a new high today with conflicting reports of further attempts on the life of the former president, as Donald Trump dodged a falling piano, a swinging death blade, and a spiked pitfall trap on his way to a campaign rally.

The latest series of deadly traps matched what has become a disturbing pattern along Trump's pathway to election day, with experts speculating that the former president may find himself dodging multiple assassination attempts per day over the next several weeks.

"It's almost as if there's some unseen force out to get him," said one campaign insider.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-dodges-falling-piano-swinging-death-blade-spiked-pitfall-trap-on-way-to-rally

[Pooky 3,784]

12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Trump Dodges Falling Piano, Swinging Death Blade, Spiked Pitfall Trap On Way To Rally

 

LONG ISLAND, NY — The tension of election season reached a new high today with conflicting reports of further attempts on the life of the former president, as Donald Trump dodged a falling piano, a swinging death blade, and a spiked pitfall trap on his way to a campaign rally.

The latest series of deadly traps matched what has become a disturbing pattern along Trump's pathway to election day, with experts speculating that the former president may find himself dodging multiple assassination attempts per day over the next several weeks.

"It's almost as if there's some unseen force out to get him," said one campaign insider.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-dodges-falling-piano-swinging-death-blade-spiked-pitfall-trap-on-way-to-rally

Were they all made by ACME?

[TBoneTX 45,288]

3 hours ago, Pooky said:

Were they all made by ACME?

Beep beep

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Incompetence, maybe, but it does smell as though someone at the USSS has ulterior motives.

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We Have Alarming Whistleblower Details on the Second Assassination Attempt on Trump

 

Hawley emphasized again that the Secret Service has guarded Trump's golf course many times before and knew where the vulnerabilities were.

"They normally station agents there ahead of Trump's appearance on the course, but they apparently did not do that this last weekend," Hawley continued.  "And the whistleblowers tell me that's strange, that's out of protocol.  It's not even clear Secret Service swept the perimeter before Trump took to the course—also a [...] breach [of] protocol—and they want to know why, and so do I."  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/09/19/we-have-alarming-whistleblower-details-on-second-assassination-attempt-n4932661

[TBoneTX 45,288]

If true, this is NOT good.

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Matt Gaetz Drops DHS Bombshell:  Five Assassination Teams Are Targeting Trump on US Soil

 

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) announced that there are at least five assassination teams in the United States that are intent on assassinating former President Donald Trump, according to an interview published on Thursday.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/09/19/matt-gaetz-drops-bombshell-five-assassination-teams-targeting-trump-on-us-soil-n2179533

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Biden Promises Next Trump Assassin Will Be A Woman Of Color

 

[...] In an exclusive sit-down interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Biden said, "It's long past time.  We should have assassins that reflect the nation — a black nation.  Blacks are great killers.  No, I'm serious!  Have you ever been to South Central?  Corn Pop was a bad dude, a killer!  And I want someone like that on our team.  But, you know, a woman."

 

"Black women are just as smart and capable as Lee Harvey Oswald," he added.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-promises-next-trump-assassin-will-be-a-woman-of-color